10 things you need to know before European markets open

Members
from Sri Lankan military march wth national flags during Sri
Lanka's 68th Independence day celebrations in Colombo, February
4, 2016REUTERS/Dinuka
Liyanawatte

Good morning! Here's what you need to know.

Terrorists struck Turkey. At least 28
people were killed and 61 wounded after a car bomb exploded
outside a military residence in Turkey's capital of Ankara on
Wednesday, Turkey's deputy prime minister, Numan
Kurtulmus, said in
a press conference following the attack.

Chinese inflation increased. Consumer price
inflation was up 1.8% in China in the 12 months to January,
according to China's National Bureau of Statistics,
the fastest rise since August 2015.

A Canadian jet maker is cutting its
workforce. Canadian plane and train maker
Bombardier said it will reduce its workforce by about 7,000
employees over the next two years, while ramping up hiring to
support
production of its CSeries commercial jets.

Iran isn't playing ball over oil production.
Iran said it would resist any plan to restrain its oil output as
fellow OPEC ministers tried to persuade the country to join the
first global oil pact in 15 years.

The US got a housing setback. US housing starts
unexpectedly fell in January likely as bad weather disrupted
building projects in some parts of the country, in what could be
a setback
for the housing industry.

The WHO needs cash to fight Zika. The World
Health Organization for $56 million for its plan to combat the
Zika virus, a disease that has been linked to severe birth
defects in
Brazil and has spread to 39 countries.